Re: terminology: prepositions, postpositions, and...
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2007, 3:47 |
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On Nov 3, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Michael Poxon wrote:
> Yes, that diminutive -ul- (as in "Ursula") always struck me as an
> infix.
> Mike
I don't think that counts as an infix under most definitions, because
it occurs between one morpheme (_urs-_) and another (_-a_), rather
than right inside one morpheme. However, there are some who think
that the diminutive _-it-_ in Spanish is an infix. I don't know what
the evidence in favor of that is, other than _azúcar_ + _-it-_
yielding _azuquítar_. It's been discussed on the list before.
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